Why Do Parents Allow Their Kids To Do This?

[sue11]

Okay this is something minor but I find it irritating. We stayed in a hotel with the usual all you can eat buffet breakfast. I watched kids grab some pastries, take them back and start to eat them. They then left them as they did not like them (fair enough) and got a couple of muffins. They pulled them apart, did not eat them and left them. They then went back to the buffet, got some cereal and toast and started to eat that instead, left half of it, got up again and took a yoghurt back to the table. At least that all got eaten!
This is not the first time I have seen parents let their kids do this, I have stayed in budget and more expensive hotels and the behaviour has been the same.
I know that kids get excited and it is natural that they will want to try everything, but when I was a kid my parents would not let me take anything else unless I had finished what was on my plate first. These parents did not seem to care or notice.
What do others think? Is this now acceptable behaviour, after all is it an all you can eat buffet and they are on holiday or do you think it is wasteful?
My thoughts are that the parents should control what they allow the kids to take and to try to teach them not too waste food in this way.
By the way the kids were around 10 years of age or so.

[RandyMarsh]

staying in a hotel is a treat, let them enjoy it.

[dunnitall]

Of course it is RM, and under control it still can be.

[ummmm]

Parents can't win.

[dunnitall]

Yeh they can ummmm, they're in charge lol ;-)

[ummmm]

If my child started running around in the supermarket people would tut and sigh. If I told him off and he threw a tantrum, because little kids do that, people will tut and sigh...

[B00]

And if you bungee rope 'em to the roof of ya car, people sigh and tut once again, I hear ya ummmm, can't win can ya? ;-)

[ummmm]

Exactly :-)

[dunnitall]

Damned sighing and tutting should be banned IMO!

[joeluke]

ummmm.....'If my child started running around in the supermarket people would tut and sigh. If I told him off and he threw a tantrum, because little kids do that, people will tut and sigh...'


Children brought up to know the difference between right and wrong don't run around in supermarkets, they walk alongside the trolley

[ummmm]

I thought bringing up children was a womans job so what would you know?

[mazie]

LOL.... and how many times did you go shopping with your brood when they were young Joe?

[boxtops]

for once, JL, I agree with you :-)

[joeluke]

'I thought bringing up children was a womans job so what would you know?'

I know that none of my kids have ever embarrassed me by misbehaving in public

[B00]

" they walk alongside the trolley "

Especially if you staple their hands to the trolly handle.

[mazie]

LOL B00, that always worked for me ;o)

[JonnyBoy12]

Yes, I too hate to see food wasted. I have the perfect solution to the problem with my motto. "You waste our food; we waste you"!

Can anyone here see what is coming next? It means that if you do not eat all you have chosen our chef will personally kill and eat you and you will be the next thing on the menu. Good idea eh?

Is anyone else with me on this one, or is this a bit over the top?

[ummmm]

Sounds reasonable to me...